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AWS – Amazon Detective supports security investigations for workloads on Amazon EKS
Amazon Detective now helps to analyze, investigate, and identify the root cause of security findings or suspicious control plane activity on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Amazon Detective uses Amazon EKS audit logs to automatically extract new entities, such as EKS clusters, container pods, and user accounts, and then builds a profile for […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now receives Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection findings
AWS Security Hub now automatically receives Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection findings. Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection delivers agentless detection of malware on your Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance and container workloads. This integration between Security Hub and GuardDuty expands the centralization and single pane of glass experience in Security Hub by consolidating your malware findings alongside […]
GCP – Improve responsiveness with session affinity on Cloud Run
We launched session affinity for Cloud Run services this June (in preview). You can use session affinity to improve responsiveness of services that store client-specific state on container instances. In this blog, I’ll dive deeper into when session affinity is useful for you and I’ll show you how it works on Cloud Run. With session […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports R5b instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports R5b database (DB) instances. R5b DB instances support up to 3x the I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 3x the bandwidth on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) compared to the x86-based memory-optimized R5 DB instances. R5b DB instances are a great choice for IO-intensive […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports fast database cloning
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now allows you to create clones to enable fast creation of a new cluster that uses the same DocumentDB cluster volume and has the same data as the original. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature
Using direct shared gallery, a feature of Azure Compute Gallery, you can now share VM images directly with other subscriptions and tenants. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog
Add rich text formatting to asset and term descriptions in the Microsoft Purview data catalog. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog
Append organizational metadata to your technical assets by creating and applying managed attributes in the Microsoft Purview data catalog. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud
All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure Global Cloud from July 2022, are activated via azkms.core.windows.net, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data. Read More for the details.